Oh, goodie, another tax — and spend — scheme hatched in City Hall. This time it is a 10-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax supposedly aimed at reducing residential property taxes. Oh, and nobody cares what you think about it.

Mayor Ethan Berkowitz says his proposed levy would fall beneath the city's tax cap and raise about $12 million in its first year. The tax bill for a $350,000 home would be trimmed about $350, he says.